Improvement in biding attachment foe habbows



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JAMES M. FREEMAN, 0E BELLEVILLE, ,NE-W YORK.

Letters Patent No. 68,179, dated August 27, 1867. i

IMPROVEMENT IN RIDING ATTACHMENT FOR HARROWS.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, JAMES M. FREEMAN, of Belleville, in the county of Jefferson, and State of New York, have invented a new and improved Riding Attachment for Harrows; and that the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, hereinafter referred to, forms a full and exact specification of the same, wherein I have set forth the nature and principles of my said improvements, by which my invention may be distinguished from all others of a similar class,'together with such parts as I claim, and desire to have secured to me by Letters Patent. i v

This invention relates toa. new and improved riding attachment for harrows, whereby the driver, instead of walking behind or by the side of the harrcw, ashithcrto, may ride on a convenient seat, and have much better control over the team and implement than hitherto. I

The accompanyingdrawing represents a sideview of my invention.

A. represents a barrow, which may *beA constructed of two parts connected together by hinges, that being y the most approved'form, although others may he used. B represents an eiastio bar of steel or iron., said bar being curved in semicircular` or an approximate form, and having its ends attached to the barrow by slip-hinges or `ionts, a, which will `admit of the two parts of the harrow rising and falling to conform. to the inequalities of the ground over which it may pass. In the Vcentre of the elastic bar Bthere is fitted a bolt, b, to which and a. draughthook,e, at the front end of the harrow, a chain, ci, is attached. C -is a. light frame, which may be of triangular or other suitable form, and has its rear part supported by wheels D, the front part having a metal bar, E, attached to it, which is fitted on the bolt b, the latter connecting the frame C to the bar B und harrow A.

Fis a drvers seat attached to inclined wooden bars G, secured to fraineC, said-bars being elastic to admit of the seat having a requisite degree of elasticity. i

It will be seen from the above description that the harrow is relieved from all strain or pull of the draught, and is allowed to work equally as free as ii' the riding attachment were not connected or applied to it, as the pull or draught is transmitted by the chain el from the hook c to the bolt b, to which the `frame C is attached, while thc elastic bar B Agreatly' relieves the barrow in its operation in passing over uneven ground,- `'and the frame keeps the harrow down to its works Having thus described my invention, I- claim as hcw, and desire to secureby Letters Patent- The connecting of a riding attachment to a harrow, through the medium-of the elastic bar B, holt b, chain d, and draught-hook c, all arranged substantially'in thc manner ns and for the purpose specified.

JAMES M. FREEMAN.

Witnesses:

J. L. HUNTING, E. T. LITTLEEIIELD. 

